September, 2007
LONDON? London-based Goshawk Insurance Holdings P.L.C. has announced post tax profits for the first half of 2007 of $1.7 million up from a $2.6 million loss for the same period last year in a preliminary announcement of un-audited interim results. The company said in a statement that the key...
WASHINGTON (Reuters)? The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has no plans to give small businesses another deadline extension to comply with the internal controls section of the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate reform law, an SEC official said Monday. "I would just urge all of you that are...
PARIS (Reuters)? Europe's livestock industry runs a serious risk of deeper exposure to bluetongue disease, but a vaccine might soon be available to stop it from becoming endemic, the world body for animal health said on Tuesday. More than 12,000 cases of bluetongue, a virus characterized by...
BLACKSBURG, Va.?Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University?the scene of the nation?s most deadly campus shooting?has been awarded a federal government grant of nearly $1 million to develop a model for assessing and responding to troubling student and faculty behavior that...
DETROIT (Reuters)?General Motors Corp. and the United Auto Workers union resumed negotiations Friday after adjourning talks in the early hours as 73,000 GM workers returned for another day of work without a new contract. Talks adjourned around 12:45 a.m. ET on Friday, GM spokesman Tom Wickham said,...
WASHINGTON (Reuters)?The Food and Drug Administration will gain new power to police serious side effects from prescription drugs already on the market under legislation approved Thursday by the Senate and sent to the White House. The measure, prompted in part by a string of drug safety...
HAMILTON, Bermuda?Ariel Holdings Ltd. plans to acquire Valiant Insurance Co. from Zurich North America Commercial Group, Ariel announced Friday. Hamilton, Bermuda-based Ariel said that it expects to close the acquisition early next month and has established a U.S.-based insurance holding company,...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.?Cincinnati Financial Corp. is asking a Florida court to restrict Florida regulators? demands for reinsurance and other documents of Cincinnati subsidiaries. The Cincinnati-based insurer disclosed Thursday that the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation issued subpoenas in August...
NASHVILLE, Tenn.?A truck driver was in the course of employment when a truck-stop pickpocket incident precipitated his heart attack, a Supreme Court of Tennessee Special Workers? Compensation Appeals Panel ruled Wednesday...
WASHINGTON?The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved mental health care benefits parity legislation that would require employers to provide the same financial cost-sharing requirements for mental health coverage as they do for other medical conditions. The Mental Health Parity Act of 2007, S. 558, passed...
